resize file system question

[E Hunter]

Greetings all.

I'm trying to extend a vxfs filesystem on my rootdg on an 11.11 system installed with the BaseVxVM bundled with 11i (2004645203) . I found in the forums a vx command that should work and an item in the GUI that should work, but both give me the same error:

vxvm:vxresize: ERROR: Cannot resize volume homevol (file system type VXFS_LITE)

Searching the HP Veritas manuals, google and itrc for vxfs_lite has gotten me nowhere.

I tried starting the Vea gui, right-clicking the partition, selecting "resize-volume", selecting the disk device with ample space, entering the size, and clicking "apply".

Then I tried from the command line:

/opt/VRTS/bin/vxresize -F vxfs homevol 1524m oracledg

Both of these give me vxfs_lite errors.

So what's vxfs_lite, and how do I extend my partitions with it? Can I resize online with Base VxFS OJFS style, or do I have to unmount? Is there some advantage to using this over using plain old lvm on a modest sort of personal development workstation?

[E Hunter]

I found the vxassist command and used the "growto" keyword to expand my volume, but now I need to grow the filesystem and "fsadm -b 1524m /home" tells me:

fsadm: You don't have a license to run this program

Is there a vx command for extending the filesystem online with the Base VxVM?

[Pete Randall]

Regardless of the underlying volume manager (VxVM or LVM), without the Online JFS (VxFS) product, the only way to resize a file system is to back up your data, increase the size of the volume (lvextend or the VxVM equivalent), then increase the size of the file system (extendfs).


Pete

[Denys van Kempen]

Hi,

Came accross exactly the same issue (running Oracle on HP Integrity) when installing the september 04 bundle: /usr is full.

Did you find the solution?
Does it have something to do with a licensing issue?

Thanks

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Denys,

Check this document.

Document description: After installing vxfs 3.5 license, unable to resize file system.
Document id: KBRC00016453

http://tinylink.com/?JT2nsAKPTZ

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan